Tam DL -> RE: New vs Old (Jan. 24 2011 8:47:25)
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Machines, and hand work, at some level it is just words, and if one works with this stuff one knows all the ins and out of it, and knows how consistent or inconsistent prevailing ideas are. I'm certainly not trying to hammer anything home on the point. That said. I was recently re-reading a GAL article, on a neck build. The builder had all kinds of beautiful jigs to make the piece, and maybe he always had perfect wood... As it happened, I had just been going through my neck stock that afternoon, not a whole lot of it left. One piece had obvious run-out grain, and I just noted it, and moved on. But later while reading the article, it occurred to me that this guy's methods would not work with that piece of wood. I will take that piece and lay the neck out on it at an angle, and get it centered. A person working with a lot of jigs, and maybe some outside labor, would not have that luxury. Of course there are all kinds of way of dealing with that. One would be to get onto my wood dealer, and make sure they never sent me another time wasting piece of wood like that... It does make me think though, what if we had a machine where a guitar would come out, instantly. Would it mater that no time was taken in building it? If one thinks so, how much time is enough? would ever more time be better. Once you know what you are doing you can get stuff done with efficiently, and with nearly zero pondering. But could a better result still be achieved with more time? Or might it be worse. I think back to a few stories I have read where people where making something like guitars, that sold for about 1K, and then along came an enthusiastic client with deep pockets and said he wanted a 10K version. What do you do, other than some spurious decoration. Anyway, back to the cave. Gotta sell some machines to make some space. The machines I have are not directly to do with making guitars. I have all the woodworking stuff, though I sold my drum sander. D'oh! I have a lot of metalworking machines, it is starting to look like a collection, which is not my intent.
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